Appearance: served a murky reddish brown hue with a partial cap and little lace.

Smell: Caramel, berry, apple, tartness and over ripe peaches.

Taste: Sour tannic apple tartness with a light suggestion of raspberry and other over ripe fruits. Lightly sour but mostly refreshing.

Mouthfeel: Gently acidic, with sugar sweetness but not intensely sweet like Lindemans just a bit on the sweeter side for a Belgian Framboise.

Drinkability: Very drinkable. Tasty and easy approachable. I think it is sweet enough to appeal to those scared off by intensly sour beer but sour enough to be enjoyed by those who don't want to drink pure sugar.

This beer looks, smells, tastes, and feels like melted raspberry sorbet, and I'm not sure what else I can say about it. It's melted raspberry sorbet with 4.10% ABV, it's really tasty. You could do some fun things with this beer in the summer...pour this over a fruit salad, and pow, instant good times ensue. This would also be dynamite with cheesecake. In fact, if I could have anything in front of me right now to go with this beer, it'd be cheesecake.

Pours out a cloudy dark reddish amber with two fingers of purple suds.
Smell is like raspberry candy. You smell sweet and sour at the same time here.
Taste is Raspberry and sugar then just a slight hint of the bitter hops at the end of the taste.
Mouthfeel is very clean and crisp.
You could drink a bunch of this but you would tire of the sweet fruityness after a couple.

Bright fuschia with coral highlights and a rose petal pink cap. Framboise is a raspberry beer all right. The head resembles raspberry mousse and has enough tackiness to deposit a fair amount of sea foamy lace. Call me crazy, but I love the look.

Although the nose has none of the earthiness, funkiness, oakiness (seriousness if you will), of some other Belgian framboise ales, it's so full of pure, sweet raspberry essence that I can't help but like it. It's much more enjoyable than Peche's nose, even taking into account the fact that I like raspberries and don't like peaches.

Framboise doesn't hold quite as well on the palate. Having said that, it's still a good fruit beer that favors the 'sweeter the better' school. As long as one doesn't expect a true fruit lambic, and as long as one has a mouth full of sweet teeth, what's not to like?

Part of the reason the flavor score takes a slight hit is that there's an underlying perfuminess that is noticeable without being a deal-breaker. Like the peach version, I'm struggling to appreciate any spices whatsoever. There may be something on the finish, but specifics escape me.

The mouthfeel is about what one would expect given all the added sugar. It's moderately viscous in a 'corn syrup added' kind of way. Corn syrup, sucrose, fructose, candi sugar... it's all the same in the end. Thankfully, there are just enough bubbles present to keep things lightly tingly on the tongue.

De Boomgaarde Framboise is something of a surprise. I started off this series of ales with the less than impressive Peche. This one is pretty good though. I can think of any number of desserts that I'd love to pair it with. Here's hoping that Kriek and Tropicale are at least as enjoyable.

Nice beer for it's category - 'fruit beer'. Strong smell coupled with a strong fruit juice flavoring that dominates over a typical beer taste. Enjoyed having just one - more than one at a time would be too much fruitiness. Refreshing beer for a warm afternoon outside!

The label is clear that this is a "belgian beer brewed with spiced and raspberry juice" and not a lambic. It looked great in a champagne flute with a big pink head and wonderful raspberry smell. This is where the good part ends. It is like Kool-Aid which is very drinkable but not very exciting. Wait unitl this is on the clearance rack to try it. $3.99 at bev'mo.

Pours a deep purple color, pinkish colored head settles very quickly. Taste is fruity, but not as sour as i expected. Still, very sweet. Mouthfeel is slightly syrupy and sweet, but that's kind of how it should be. Drinkability on this beer is a bit of a question mark for me. It's a unique beer, not bad if you are expecting it, but honestly, it's too sweet to drink more than one of these. I picked it up tonight mainly to show my mother in law that there are many different styles of beer. Not my favorite framboise, but i guess it's ok.

T: Sour, watery, slight bitter 'sweet and low' artificial sweetener taste, tart and bitter tastes. A bit of floral and a bit of raspberry come out when really swooshed with air over the tongue.

M: Medium light syrupy body. Low carbonation, like a flat Sprite.

O: Love the bottle and the fact that its retired intrigues me. However, in my opinion if all the other bottles taste like this, perhaps it should be retired. 'Sweet and Low' (calorie free sweetner) watery, etc. Its not up to par with the other ratings in my opinion. Still, it has almost a year left before expiry, so this shouldn’t be the issue. I am glad to find it though. Nice on a summer day by itself, woud go well with light salads.

The beer poured into the chalice clear garnet with a slightly pink head which rose tall and fell slowly to lace the glass.

The aroma was very strong raspberries with a notable tart quality. The aroma was quite floral and had a perfume quality.

The flavor was average with a moderate amount of raspberry character and a light tartness. The flavor was very close to that found in a drink mix.

The finish was dry with a bit of tannins lasting into the aftertaste. The tannins really only surfaced after the other flavors faded into the background. The body was just below medium with a moderate carbonation. The perfume in the aroma, the drink mix raspberry and the tannins in the finish make this beer one to be missed.

12.7 ounce corked and bailed bottle. 2005 on cork, Sep 2007 on top of bail. Label says "Brewed with spices and raspberry juice".

Taste is similar. Very fruity, juicy, a bit tangy and quite sweet. Just like a fruit juice, not a beer.

Highly effervescent, the beer is light like a fruit juice. Very drinkable if you like raspberries and juice.

A decent representation of the style, but not at all what I would consider a true beer. I can understand why certain people gravitate toward these types of beers. I would pass an opportunity to try again.

In line with the other De Boomgaard products. Its a glorified fruit juice product. Exactly what its intended to be? ehhhh throw a shot of alcohol into a cup of raspberries and this is what your looking for? not for me.

Fizzy head fades quickly with no lacing.

Huge fruity aroma is on the sour side but nothing intersting going on here. Sugary in the finish.

Notes: Like I've said earlier, its fruit juice. Have I enjoyed fruity beers in the past? You bet. This is just run of the mill.